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Pingdom Review: Monitor Your Websites Uptime

by Jeff Weisbein August 11, 2009
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Pingdom is a freemium web service that allows you to monitor and track your websites uptime.  As all website owners and server administrators know – uptime is extremely important.  The more your site/server is down the more money you are losing.  Not only does it effect possible advertising or sales revenue, it can also harm [...]

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Tweetboard Brings Twitter To Your Website

by Jeff Weisbein June 30, 2009
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Tweetboard is a 140ware project that creates a Twitter-powered forum for any site. All a site owner needs to do to install Tweetboard on their site is implement the code provided and you will instantly have a site-wide tab appear which allows visitors to have forum-type discussions by simply logging into Twitter (via OAuth). All [...]

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Quick! Call The AT&T Webmaster

by Jeff Weisbein June 23, 2009
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AT&T has been known lately for screwing up, but, their latest mishap is quite silly. AT&T tweeted this morning that they would be releasing their second quarter earnings on July 23rd, 2009 by 8AM EST and that they would be broadcasting a live web cast of the conference call discussing the earnings around 10AM EST. [...]

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Why Page Load Times Are Important

by Jeff Weisbein June 6, 2009
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Recently, Google announced they were open sourcing one of their internal tools called Page Speed.  Page Speed can be used in conjunction with the Firefox plugin Firebug (install Firebug then install Page Speed).  The tool will analyze any web page and provide useful information and feedback that you can use to help improve the pages [...]

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Google Explains The Downtime

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009
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As I posted about earlier, Google experienced a bit of downtime and slowdowns mainly throughout the United States. Below is a excerpt from the Google blog explaining what exactly happened to bring about this occurrence. Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an [...]

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